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1. define health
Answer: presence or absence of disease
2. define wellness
Answer: overall state of well-being or total health
3. What are the 7 components of wellness?
Answer: environmental occupational
intellectual
spiritual
physical
emotional social
4. Define environmental wellness
Answer: ability to promote health measures that improve standard of living
and quality of life
,5. define occupational wellness
Answer: ability to achieve a balance between work and leisure time
6. define intellectual wellness
Answer: ability to learn and use info ettectively for personal, family and career development
7. define spiritual wellness
Answer: the belief in some force that serves to unite human beings and provide meaning and purpose to life
8. define physical wellness
Answer: ability to carry out daily tasks, achieve fitness, maintain adequate nutrition and proper body fat, avoid abusing
drugs and alcohol or using tobacco products and generally practicing positive lifestyle habits
9. Define role performance model
Answer: ability to fulfill societal roles
10. How does the health-illness model work?
Answer: health and illness/disease are opposite ends of a health continuum. Your everyday decisions influence
where you end up.
11. examples of internal variables influencing health status, beliefs and prac- tices?
Answer: biologic dimension, psychological dimension, cognitive dimension
12. examples of external variables influencing health status, beliefs and prac- tices?
Answer: physical environment, standards of living, family and cultural beliefs, and social support network
,13. define disease
Answer: a systematic problem and usually shows evidence
14. define illness
Answer: a personal state or feeling
15. define acute illness
Answer: comes and goes quickly
16. define chronic illness
Answer: lasts greater than 6 months. includes remission and exacerbation
17. What are the 5 stages of illness?
Answer: 1. symptoms
2. sick role
3. seeking care
4. dependent patient role
5. recovery
18. illness impacts who?
Answer: the patient and family
19. define holism
, Answer: view individual as a whole
20. define homeostasis
Answer: maintain equilibrium or balance
21. What is the highest priority according to maslow's?
Answer: physiological needs
22. What are the 3 levels of prevention?
Answer: primary, secondary, tertiary
23. Define primary prevention
Answer: education to prevent a problem from happening
24. Define secondary prevention
Answer: early identification and early intervention to detect issues
25. Define tertiary prevention
Answer: occurs after the illness has appeared to prevent complications
26. define medical asepsis
Answer: clean technique confining microorganisms
27. define surgical asepsis
Answer: sterile technique destroys all
microorganisms